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Has Rademacher gained arm strength, is his mention a comment on the lack of arm strength left, or have I only seen him (in the past) on bad days?

I see it. And for all we know he's hinting that, we're gonna be in contention over the next few years, and the Mets aren't. I'm sure we can trade them a B- grade hitter in our system for one of their already established MLB pitchers, because pitchers.

Is it just my faulty memory, or is it a feature in Tapatalk that when posts are quoted, the names of the quoted author(s) are omitted? I thought pre upgrade the most recent post authors post and name were included.

According to the NFL teams cannot meet with him until Saturday. He's supposedly already met with Rex Ryan, so I'm guessing Buffalo is going to be eliminated by that.

What are the rules on UDFA contracts? Can there be bonuses based on starts/probowl/etc?

Assuming everything comes up cleared on Mon/Tues Collins....

Mailinator.com is a good source of temporary disposable email addresses, assuming the sign-up allows use of those.

I didn't mind it before the most recent update which totally changed the UI I reinstalled the old version from one backed up on my computer. Haven't thought about updating since.

fascinating...I wonder what impact that has on Rule 5 status? To be honest, I'm more interested that it's the second ex Cub, both of whom are in the Braves org. That's some next level tin foil hattery.

Rule 5 selection (and former Cub minor leaguer) Andrew McKirahan Jr tested positive for performance enhancing drugs and was suspended for 80 games.

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lmao Wonder which CFL team it was.

Houston played the exact role in the Raiders 3-4 that the Bears say McPhee is going to play. Played some 5-technique, some OLB, some inside, some outside with hand on ground. I am assuming the Bears are going to use both like that this year. Washington played 3-4 at Georgia. He was an OLB, but he looks like a guy that could bulk up to play a backup role of the same thing Houston and McPhee will play. Same body type as those guys, plus he slimmed down to get teams to look at him as a 3-4 OLB. He can get up to 270-280 pretty easily, I'm sure. McClellin also played 3-4 in college. Played OLB and ILB. Ratliff also played in the 3-4 in Dallas. 4-time probowl NT in that scheme. Though, I hope he plays DE/DT, in the Justin Smith role. Smith played a LOT of 3-technique in SF last year, in what basically was a 4-3 under scheme like Seattle runs. I think Ferguson could play the nose in the 3-4. Could be a really good developmental backup at NT. Bass is interesting. He had one of the best rates of putting on QB pressure last year, in a very limited number of snaps. He may actually be better at OLB than DE. Allen, I'm assuming gets cut. Oh and Jimmy Graham traded to the Seahawks. Allen counts fully ($12.5mil) against the cap, even if cut. I can't see that happening. If he's odd man out, it's likely for whatever low round draft pick someone will give up.

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Adam Schefter ‏@AdamSchefter 22s22 seconds ago Filed to ESPN: Rams close to trading QB Sam Bradford to Philadelphia for Nick Foles and draft-pick compensation, per sources.

he was my top preference for DT fix after Fairley's imminent departure Sounds like Ngata might be the answer.

I think Green stays in Denver, shorter deal, and hopes to capitalize on a year of being the feature TE with Manning. But, I like the thought of him coming and think if he signs here it means Bennett is on the trade block, or a post June 1 cut. Why would you want to cut Bennett? I don't necessarily like the idea of cutting Bennett, I'd rather have a good 2TE combo. But with the team needs, and available cap space, he's the most logical "next shoe," with his cap savings. I don't mind him on the team, he's a great teammate when things are going well, and a great TE. I just doubt the FO is as high on him as I am.

I think Green stays in Denver, shorter deal, and hopes to capitalize on a year of being the feature TE with Manning. But, I like the thought of him coming and think if he signs here it means Bennett is on the trade block, or a post June 1 cut.

But they got their man at coach It's gotta make you at least question if ownership should have remove Baalke from the situation, instead of allowing him to fire Harbaugh.

To be fair, that may have just been a sex dream Bernstein had last night. Before I got to the end of your post I had the same thought. Not that it's probable, at all, that either QB is getting traded, or not starting the season with their current team, but would some form of a Kaepernick-Cutler(+) swap be feasible? I'm not sure I'd like it. Not the biggest Kaepernick fan.

can't they just do a family share on their cloud storage? I don't know I was trying (badly) to be funny. To be honest, you wouldn't need a supercomputer for that, and Cray would not likely want to be publicly linked to such usage. You could have more than enough storage for that on a single rack in one of the datacenters in Chicago. Easily fit more than a petabyte (1000 tb) in a single 16u rack. Cray bragging about it, is likely indicative it's something semi-visionary. Whether it works for the team who bought it will remain to be seen.

Correct. Logic says it's Cubs or Dodgers though.

why Because the processing speed of a supercomputer is unnecessary for baseball analytics. Just a thought. What about real time mechanics analysis at the major and/or minor league levels. Since they've outfitted all the parks with live video feeds, visible in Chicago, why can't they be fed into the supercomputer, analyzed, and milliseconds later a swing deviation, arm angle, release point deviation, be noticed? Then the information be pushed to the manager/relevant coach's communication device, for immediate correction. I don't believe that process needs to be executed in milliseconds. A hitter is going to have a good half hour in between ABs. A pitcher has a good 10 minutes between innings. I'm talking between pitches. Not between innings. Imagine you could correct a flaw in the same at bat it starts. Or you can diagnose quicker, the exert so slight arm angle change, reducing improper mechanics, detecting fatigue, possibly slowing the inevitable Tommy John.

why Because the processing speed of a supercomputer is unnecessary for baseball analytics. Just a thought. What about real time mechanics analysis at the major and/or minor league levels. Since they've outfitted all the parks with live video feeds, visible in Chicago, why can't they be fed into the supercomputer, analyzed, and milliseconds later a swing deviation, arm angle, release point deviation, be noticed? Then the information be pushed to the manager/relevant coach's communication device, for immediate correction.

Unless it's being relayed to the players at the point of contact, there's no need for that kind of speed. Spitballing, but maybe for VR-esque training stuff? Agreed that there's no significant benefit to having a supercomputer just to have a supercomputer, although I haven't followed the story so maybe that label is just marketing silliness than actual distinction. Not that it may not be overkill, depending on purposes, but let's not pretend this is supercomputer is going to be sequencing genomes, beating Watson in chess, or something. You don't get anything but a bottom of the line, no frills Cray for $500k.